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nahi for Ruby Hero
Hiroshi Nakamura has been with Ruby from the very
beginning, when it was still unknown outside of Japan.
He's the only one who is a core member on two Ruby
implementations (afaik), CRuby and JRuby, and he's
also a significant contributor to very important
gems/extensions: OpenSSL, jruby-ossl and httpclient
were authored by him, Webrick is maintained by him
and he has contributed to numerous others. He's also
one of the driving forces behind
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/StdlibGem
aka "Gemifying the Ruby standard library". And
while next to a family, a job and several projects
to look after he sure has his plate full with tasks,
he is always friendly and helpful and even finds the
time to help others out.
The way how he has handled the #hashDoS vulnerability
that was disclosed at 28C3 was beyond exemplary,
his contribution was key to the fixes both for Ruby
1.8 and JRuby. They were delivered faster and with
more attention to detail than they were provided for
any other language.He was even mentioned favorably by
the researchers, putting the Ruby community in a very
pleasant light.
Hiroshi often moderates between Japanese Rubyists and
those from the rest of the world, helping where he can.
Instead of pouring fire on the "wars" over the better/best
Ruby implementation, I think Hiroshi is the living and
breathing example of what it is all about when being
a Rubyist - that Ruby itself as a language is awesome,
no matter what the implementation.
If anyone deserves to be called a "hero" for his
contributions to the Ruby ecosphere, I think Hiroshi
Nakamura does.
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